Where do you look to protect biodiversity from the human footprint? One possible area is the Mobile-Tensaw region of Alabama, one of the most biodiverse states in America. But should the National Park Service protect it?

A winter heavy in snowfall has slowed the start to the wildfire season across parts of the West, although the return of the El Niño weather pattern in the Pacific Ocean could reverse that start and contribute to another smoky summer in the National Park System.

Concerns that planners of Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Program didn't properly consider how climate-change impacts might affect the massive project are prompting another review of the planning.

It was a warm, sunny day at Veterans Lake in Chickasaw National Recreation Area: butterflies fluttering, frogs hopping, and birds singing. I stepped to the edge of the lake, a long-handled net in my hand. I poked it into the algae-filled water, jabbing at plants rooted in the muck. I pulled the net up and peered insid

Across the National Park System, scientists and biologists are working in parks — above and below ground, and in the ocean — to cure wildlife diseases.

In a coastal landscape of Spanish moss-draped live oaks, salt marshes, and white sand beaches, a land that offers nesting habitat for loggerhead sea turtles, is crawling with armadillos, and feeds Red knots, a threatened bird species, and wood storks, horses are incongruous.

Two studies – one spotlighting segregation at national parks in Virginia from 1916-1965 and the other showcasing where African Americans recreated from the late 19th through the early 21st century—are setting the stage for new national historic landmark designations, listings on the National Register of Historic Places, and opportunities for national parks to be more candid about their past.

A tiny shorebird that helps us monitor coastal ecosystems has a sandy toehold at Point Reyes National Seashore.

It was a well-trekked sandy trail leading us into the thick brush. A gentle breeze rustled the shrubs and straggling mesquite and ironwood trees. In an instant on the short track, we seemed to leave the Sonoran Desert behind and move into a stunted but lush preserve.

What better way to spend a summer vacation than floating down a wild river? Whether in a canoe down the Ozark National Scenic Riverways, a day-trip down Montana’s Flathead River, or a multi-week adventure deep in the Grand Canyon, it’s time to plan your trip.

The pivot from being blasted by snow and pelted by rainstorms is speeding straight to the next challenge — a powerful melt that can engorge waterways and send torrential flows down wildfire-scarred mountainsides that are just out of the driest three years on record.

The vast collection of earthworks at Hopewell Culture National Historical Park were the temples of a complex religion, practiced by people throughout the entire Eastern United States, and on high holy days would have been cosmopolitan cities full of elaborately dressed practitioners who spoke a panoply of languages.

Cat Burleaud, originally from Southlake, Texas, wouldn’t have dared to imagine that her 2019 internship at Mount Rainier National Park would open the door to a burgeoning career with the National Park Service.

Valles Caldera is a mountainous, forested landscape broken by sweeps of grasslands and which in places rises more than 11,000 feet in northern New Mexico. It is also, figuratively, a not quite 90,000-acre blank canvas upon which the National Park Service is working to create what it envisions will be a masterpiece.

"Ecocide" in Venezuela's national parks, elephant and rhino poaching in African parks, wildlife trafficking in Vietnam's parks, and illegal gold mining in Belize's parks are just some of the blights on the global collection of national parks and protected areas

Archaeological sites deep within Grand Canyon National Park have been damaged, and lost in some cases, due to changes in the Colorado River caused by the construction of the Glen Canyon Dam.

As Jerry Bransford leads tours through Mammoth Cave, he can point to more than 150 years of family history in the passageways.

Mythic, iconic, and nomadic, bison are an American relic, the continent's largest mammal that once roamed from Canada to Mexico, from Nevada to Virginia. Reduced in number from an estimated 60 million to just thousands, the species is being given a $25 million lifeline from the Biden administration to bolster its genetics and herds.

Feral horses — especially the females — live a short, sickly life on Georgia’s largest barrier island, advocates say.

When the waterline breaks — as happens almost monthly on the South Rim and canyon floor of Grand Canyon National Park — the canteen at Phantom Ranch and other park restaurants break out disposable plates and plastic utensils instead of dishware requiring water to wash.